Friday, September 18, 2015

Friday Water Cooler

There's liquid under all that snow and ice.

NASA Confirms Subsurface Ocean on Enceladus(theverge.com). Researchers used Cassini to measure the wobble in Enceladus' orbit of Saturn, something that "can only be accounted for if its outer ice shell is not frozen solid to its interior."

Nine of the World’s Biggest Banks Form Blockchain Partnership (recode.net). Worth keeping tabs on. Banks could someday use a Bitcoin 2.0 (or other digital currency) as short-term interchange medium for P2P transactions that are then reconciled against user cash balances (so in theory you might never know you were using Bitcoin when you clicked watches with that homeless person to give him $1 at that traffic island). The scenarios are a bit vague at this point, but we're seeing the beginnings of something. Arguably.